No one likes to be told they aren’t meeting performance expectations. But what if you took your titles and set them to the side and focused on what is actually going on. I guarantee you it’s not whether someone is meeting expectations. That’s the result. Instead of focusing on the outcome, look at what happened to get to that outcome and work out from there. You don’t need fancy titles and if you catch performance issues early enough, you won’t even need formal documents. And guess what? You’ll likely strengthen your work relationship in the process.